• Read more about ASU Graduate College announces 2021–22 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

On Feb. 28, the Graduate College will honor four Arizona State University graduate professors with Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards. Now in their 35th year, the Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards recognize outstanding faculty members for their service to the graduate student and postdoctoral scholar communities through mentoring excellence.

Active, committed mentors not only offer coaching, modeling and feedback in academic and career development, but provide essential psychosocial and interpersonal connection and support.

• Read more about Where education leaders find support

“Special education directors deserve to have more of a voice and community in the education system than they typically do,” says Lauren Katzman, executive director of the Urban Collaborative.

• Read more about AASA features MLFTC’s Next Education Workforce models

In February, AASA, The School Superintendents Association, held its 2022 National Conference on Education in which Carole Basile, dean of ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, was a guest speaker.

• Read more about Remembering Professor Elsie Moore

Elsie Moore, a beloved Arizona State University faculty member and pioneer in diversity, equity and inclusion, died on Feb. 21 at the age of 72.

“Elsie shared her grace, intellect and love of learning with every person she encountered,” ASU President Michael M. Crow said. “She advanced against intellectual and cultural adversaries with wisdom, understanding and love. She made a difference here at ASU and in our broader world, and will be deeply missed.”

• Read more about From our journals: A special issue on understanding inequity in education and more

Staying or leaving? Teacher professional characteristics and attrition in Arizona traditional public and charter schools

By: Margarita Pivovarova and Jeanne M. Powers, ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College

Published in: Education Policy Analysis Archives, Feb. 15, 2022

• Read more about Graduate students present student-led research

Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is known for the depth and diversity of its research. Average annual expenditures for education research at ASU totaled more than $73 million from 2020-21; the most of any education program in the United States, according to U.S.News and World Report.

• Read more about Faculty publication roundup, March 2022

• Read more about ASU academy celebrates 10 years of educating young scholars

When Gary Herberger was a high school junior, his physics teacher sat down and announced to the class that Herberger would be teaching them for the rest of the semester. The teacher told him, “I can learn more from you than I could possibly teach you.”

The memory of that incident caused the late philanthropist, businessman, architect and Arizona State University patron to set up the Gary K. Herberger Young Scholars Academy (HYSA) 10 years ago.

• Read more about A year of radical reform

In March, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College hosted a virtual event highlighting the hardships surrounding education in Afghanistan and one woman’s courageous battle to bring this basic necessity to the children of her country.

• Read more about From our journals: Navigating school plans post-pandemic

Neoliberalism, COVID, anti-science and the politics of school reopening

By: Kerry Kretchmar, Carroll University and T. Jameson Brewer, University of North Georgia

Published in: Education Policy Analysis Archives, March 2022